[vlc-devel] [PATCH] stream: add stream_ForcedPeekNew

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 2015-09-10 18:53, Francois Cartegnie a écrit :
>> If a demuxer needs to read up to 200KiB to detect the format, it 
>> most
>> certainly should be restricted to truly seekable streams anyway
>> (possibly even only fast seekable).
>
> Subtitles are 256 lines probing with 2K max line probing in
> stream_Readline which is 512K.
>
> Peeking 512K to fail late is a no go.

Indeed. Which is why this patch is a no go.

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